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Friday, Feb. 17, 1989 Celebrating the Weber State College Centennial Vol. 49, No. 46 I People become good at something because they practice at it. According to Jackson, the average inner city youth practices basketball about 24 hours a week. If we turned off the television and the radio and spent more time studying, he said, "we could slam dunk a thought like we slam dunk a basketball." (The Signpost photo: Robeen Gillem) "I - IF: . - s; - i f h N 4 V. f 1 V "" - ' v," , . , I n ! n I ' -"U V j 1 - ' i II It 1! Faculty Senate makes recommendations for lay offs By Lynn Martineau Asst. News Editor Recommendations the Faculty Senate will make to the Board of Regents concerning the Board's "umbrella document" were the main focus of discussion at Thursday's Faculty Senate meeting. The umbrella document is a two-part document. The first part deals with academic freedom, professional responsibility and tenure. The second portion deals with bona fide financial exigency and personnel reduction. Discussion centered around the layoffs of faculty members. The original document states, "For tenured faculty and for faculty employed for at least three years, the layoff of faculty members must correspond with program reductions. Therefore, affected positions may not be filled within a period of three years from the effective date to the layoff, unless the faculty member has been offered a return to employment in that position and has not accepted the offer within 30 calendar days after the offer was extended." The senate is making the recommendation that a laid off faculty member be given 60 days to accept an offer to return to work instead of 30. The senate also recommends the portion of the document which refers to layoffs and tenured status be changed from: "...New faculty appointments when faculty employed for at least three years are laid off. The institution will not lay off faculty members who have been employed for three years", to "...New faculty appointments for tenured or tenure track faculty employed for at least three years on the track. The institution will not lay off tenured or tenure track faculty members. . What this part of the document does is make an offer to reinstate a tenured or tenure track faculty member who has been laid off before the position will be offered to someone else. Staff members are protected in a similar fashion, but they only receive a one year grace period rather than three years. Also, the senate would like to see an amendment that would insure faculty members returning from a lay off sure reinstatement at their previous salary or at an increased salary, based on cost of living increases. The senate further proposed retiring or resigning faculty members should not be considered as a reduction in the work force, allowing those subsequent vacancies to be filled. The senate is making other recommendations for change in the document, but they were not the subject of much discussion. The senate voted to approve two proposed catalog policy statements. The first statement concerns full-time graduate student status, as it pertains to financial aid requirements. The adopted policy classifies graduate students with six or more credit hours as full-time. Students with five credit hours or less are not eligible for full-time financial aid status, however, students with three to five credit hours will satisfy financial aid half-time status requirements. The other proposal dealt with the amount of credit hours a financial aid recipient must carry to satisfy eligibility requirements. The senate also approved several curriculum changes. These included changes of class titles and the changing of some lower division classes to upper division status. Inside . . . Jesse Jackson speaks about moral center By Jill Titensor Managing Editor "This man I don't think needs any introduction," said Convocation Chair Tanji Thurgood, as she welcomed yesterday's Convocation guest speaker and audience to the Dee Events Center. In response to a standing ovation, the Reverend Jesse Jackson took the stand and addressed a crowd of 6500 WSC faculty, staff and students, local elementary school children, and members of the community. Jackson expressed his pleasure at seeing so many young people. "The minds of small children are very impressionable. We must all take time to include them in our serious conversation," he said. He then proceeded to invite anyone under age 12 to sit near him on the arena floor. Within minutes the Wildcats' basketball court was covered with little ones. "I wish you all could vote," he said. The main focus of Jackson's speech was the quest for a moral center not liberalism, not conservatism, but a moral center it's about being fundamentally sound. "When we fight for the homeless that's not left wing . . . You couldn't very well call Jesus a left-winger," he said. "Fighting for the homeless is the moral center." Last week, Jackson visited Armenia in the Soviet Union. He . described disasters resulting from the earthquake. Homes, churches, schools were swallowed up, he said. "How delicate our earth is. We can't afford to be exploding nuclear weapons on the ground on our earth, it's too delicate." "Go to any state university for four years full academic scholarship it'll cost less than $30,000. Those same four years on a full penitentiary scholarship will cost $120,000 to $160,000." The Rey Jesse Jackson "Nuclear weapons have no real use. They cannot be used. They cannot be survived." According to Jackson, U.S. foreign policy must be an extension of domestic policy. He stressed as part of his moral center learning another language. North America houses only one-third of this hemisphere's population, he said. The other two-thirds includes our Latin American neighbors. Half of all human beings are Asian. "Most people in the world today are yellow or brown or black, or non-Christian or poor or female or young or don't speak English." Jackson talked about the many ways people are measured by the wheelbase of their car, or the position of their house on the hill, or by how many buildings their name is on. He said Jesus introduced an alternative method of measurement "Measure peopie by how .they treat other people. Moreover, measure them by how they treat the least of these." (see CONVO on page 3) News ... The last of fee allocations (hopefully). . . page 2 Opinion... Ressurection of Ain't life grand. . . page 5 Entertainment... Popular comedian coming tonight. . . page 6 Sports... Hope for Olympics in Utah .. . page 7 1889 1989 100 YEARS

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Friday, Feb. 17, 1989 Celebrating the Weber State College Centennial Vol. 49, No. 46 I People become good at something because they practice at it. According to Jackson, the average inner city youth practices basketball about 24 hours a week. If we turned off the television and the radio and spent more time studying, he said, "we could slam dunk a thought like we slam dunk a basketball." (The Signpost photo: Robeen Gillem) "I - IF: . - s; - i f h N 4 V. f 1 V "" - ' v," , . , I n ! n I ' -"U V j 1 - ' i II It 1! Faculty Senate makes recommendations for lay offs By Lynn Martineau Asst. News Editor Recommendations the Faculty Senate will make to the Board of Regents concerning the Board's "umbrella document" were the main focus of discussion at Thursday's Faculty Senate meeting. The umbrella document is a two-part document. The first part deals with academic freedom, professional responsibility and tenure. The second portion deals with bona fide financial exigency and personnel reduction. Discussion centered around the layoffs of faculty members. The original document states, "For tenured faculty and for faculty employed for at least three years, the layoff of faculty members must correspond with program reductions. Therefore, affected positions may not be filled within a period of three years from the effective date to the layoff, unless the faculty member has been offered a return to employment in that position and has not accepted the offer within 30 calendar days after the offer was extended." The senate is making the recommendation that a laid off faculty member be given 60 days to accept an offer to return to work instead of 30. The senate also recommends the portion of the document which refers to layoffs and tenured status be changed from: "...New faculty appointments when faculty employed for at least three years are laid off. The institution will not lay off faculty members who have been employed for three years", to "...New faculty appointments for tenured or tenure track faculty employed for at least three years on the track. The institution will not lay off tenured or tenure track faculty members. . What this part of the document does is make an offer to reinstate a tenured or tenure track faculty member who has been laid off before the position will be offered to someone else. Staff members are protected in a similar fashion, but they only receive a one year grace period rather than three years. Also, the senate would like to see an amendment that would insure faculty members returning from a lay off sure reinstatement at their previous salary or at an increased salary, based on cost of living increases. The senate further proposed retiring or resigning faculty members should not be considered as a reduction in the work force, allowing those subsequent vacancies to be filled. The senate is making other recommendations for change in the document, but they were not the subject of much discussion. The senate voted to approve two proposed catalog policy statements. The first statement concerns full-time graduate student status, as it pertains to financial aid requirements. The adopted policy classifies graduate students with six or more credit hours as full-time. Students with five credit hours or less are not eligible for full-time financial aid status, however, students with three to five credit hours will satisfy financial aid half-time status requirements. The other proposal dealt with the amount of credit hours a financial aid recipient must carry to satisfy eligibility requirements. The senate also approved several curriculum changes. These included changes of class titles and the changing of some lower division classes to upper division status. Inside . . . Jesse Jackson speaks about moral center By Jill Titensor Managing Editor "This man I don't think needs any introduction," said Convocation Chair Tanji Thurgood, as she welcomed yesterday's Convocation guest speaker and audience to the Dee Events Center. In response to a standing ovation, the Reverend Jesse Jackson took the stand and addressed a crowd of 6500 WSC faculty, staff and students, local elementary school children, and members of the community. Jackson expressed his pleasure at seeing so many young people. "The minds of small children are very impressionable. We must all take time to include them in our serious conversation," he said. He then proceeded to invite anyone under age 12 to sit near him on the arena floor. Within minutes the Wildcats' basketball court was covered with little ones. "I wish you all could vote," he said. The main focus of Jackson's speech was the quest for a moral center not liberalism, not conservatism, but a moral center it's about being fundamentally sound. "When we fight for the homeless that's not left wing . . . You couldn't very well call Jesus a left-winger," he said. "Fighting for the homeless is the moral center." Last week, Jackson visited Armenia in the Soviet Union. He . described disasters resulting from the earthquake. Homes, churches, schools were swallowed up, he said. "How delicate our earth is. We can't afford to be exploding nuclear weapons on the ground on our earth, it's too delicate." "Go to any state university for four years full academic scholarship it'll cost less than $30,000. Those same four years on a full penitentiary scholarship will cost $120,000 to $160,000." The Rey Jesse Jackson "Nuclear weapons have no real use. They cannot be used. They cannot be survived." According to Jackson, U.S. foreign policy must be an extension of domestic policy. He stressed as part of his moral center learning another language. North America houses only one-third of this hemisphere's population, he said. The other two-thirds includes our Latin American neighbors. Half of all human beings are Asian. "Most people in the world today are yellow or brown or black, or non-Christian or poor or female or young or don't speak English." Jackson talked about the many ways people are measured by the wheelbase of their car, or the position of their house on the hill, or by how many buildings their name is on. He said Jesus introduced an alternative method of measurement "Measure peopie by how .they treat other people. Moreover, measure them by how they treat the least of these." (see CONVO on page 3) News ... The last of fee allocations (hopefully). . . page 2 Opinion... Ressurection of Ain't life grand. . . page 5 Entertainment... Popular comedian coming tonight. . . page 6 Sports... Hope for Olympics in Utah .. . page 7 1889 1989 100 YEARS